(n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
(n.) See Jetsam, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(2) A "cornerstone" of the legal system, the universal right to a solicitor upon arrest, could be jettisoned in favour of means-testing under controversial plans drawn up by the Ministry of Justice.
(3) Ministers float ideas about measuring rates of family break-up, which they must know they can do almost nothing about, and then scramble to jettison those financial metrics over which they exert the most direct control.
(4) During the local election campaign Farage has also jettisoned, seemingly on his whim, longstanding policies such as a flat rate of tax.
(5) "The STOVL is unable to land vertically on to a carrier in hot, humid and low pressure weather conditions without having to jettison heavy loads.
(6) However, during the past decade Paltrow appears to have decided to jettison her career and become a full-time spouter of nonsense about food , exercise and her own inner journey , all detailed on her website, Goop.
(7) He had been forced to jettison the entire consignment without compensation from his dealers.
(8) NBC dropped Miss Universe when the broadcaster jettisoned The Apprentice last month due to “derogatory statements” by Trump regarding immigrants.
(9) It's clearly not in the interests of ideologues who want to jettison the welfare state to help educate the public about its real value.
(10) The plan was for the plane to spray the sarin over a target site, but because of a malfunction, each tank still contained 90 gallons of sarin when they were jettisoned in an isolated area of the site at 8.29am.
(11) Many Conservatives have become increasingly concerned that in the government’s helter-skelter pursuit of the referendum, they have been jettisoning or watering down key elements of their legislative programme.
(12) It is one that Blatter will calibrate according to whether sticking with the tiny Gulf state, contending with temperatures of 50C-plus (122F) in the summer, and pressure over its treatment of migrant workers, is more trouble than jettisoning it.
(13) You Adebolajo sprinted towards the officers jettisoning the knife and carrying the cleaver above your head as if intent on attacking one or more of them, while you Adebowale went down the adjacent pavement and pointed the gun at the officers.
(14) As a result of his recalcitrance, Nkunda was jettisoned and replaced at the negotiating table by another CNDP leader, Bosco Ntaganda.
(15) The two short term goals for Osborne were to remain loyal to his manifesto but also jettison those nonsensical parts of the manifesto that he had never intended to deliver, but had merely inserted to wrongfoot Labour or abandon in a negotiation with his expected Lib Dem partners.
(16) Channel 4 is also cutting up to £75m from its £600m programme budget this year, while Five has jettisoned stars, including Trisha Goddard, to make savings.
(17) A further claim is that Crosby, whose company in Australia represents drinks industry interests, improperly influenced the British government to jettison a minimum unit price for alcohol.
(18) Giving money to any charity is an inherently political act – you say, for example, that you jettisoned the RSPCA when their focus switched to foxhunting.
(19) Shadow cabinet ministers were reported to be debating whether to jettison the Osborne deficit straitjacket and promise an extensive programme of investment in housing and public services.
(20) There are no indications that Mike D'Antoni's job is in jeopardy, but after seeing how quickly the Lakers organization jettisoned his predecessor, he can't feel too secure either.
Lose
Definition:
(v. t.) To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money from one's purse or pocket, or in business or gaming; to lose an arm or a leg by amputation; to lose men in battle.
(v. t.) To cease to have; to possess no longer; to suffer diminution of; as, to lose one's relish for anything; to lose one's health.
(v. t.) Not to employ; to employ ineffectually; to throw away; to waste; to squander; as, to lose a day; to lose the benefits of instruction.
(v. t.) To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to and; to go astray from; as, to lose one's way.
(v. t.) To ruin; to destroy; as destroy; as, the ship was lost on the ledge.
(v. t.) To be deprived of the view of; to cease to see or know the whereabouts of; as, he lost his companion in the crowd.
(v. t.) To fail to obtain or enjoy; to fail to gain or win; hence, to fail to catch with the mind or senses; to miss; as, I lost a part of what he said.
(v. t.) To cause to part with; to deprive of.
(v. t.) To prevent from gaining or obtaining.
(v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.
(3) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(4) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(5) Larvae from fresh water eggs, cultured in fresh water and 'normal' laboratory cultures reached 50% infectivity in 3-5 days, losing potential infectivity in 11-15 days post-hatching.
(6) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(7) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(8) c-WRT-7 cells were found to differentiate into macrophage-like cells and to lose their growth capacity both in vitro and in vivo after incubation with LPS.
(9) By using these larger catheters, the surgeon will not lose the option of using isosmotic preparations.
(10) Winning and losing were predicted to be more significant in determining cardiovascular responses for Type A's than for Type B's.
(11) "I have to say that I have been a Chelsea player since 2004 and I have never had six minutes in my favour when I was losing.
(12) He would still lose some of his original cash, but it would be less.
(13) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
(14) In addition, we have shown that long-lived, presumably non-senescent, strains do not arise by suppressor mutation, but lose senescence plasmid DNA by another mechanism.
(15) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(16) Duraphat-treated samples submerged in water after the exposure lost only about 50% of the deposited fluoride, whereas samples treated with 2% NaF are known to lose all their fluoride under similar circumstances, a condition which may be related to the favorable clinical effect of Duraphat.
(17) In the midst of all the newspaper headlines and vigils you can sometimes lose sight of the man who was on death row.
(18) Last month Walsall council announced it would close 15 of its 16 libraries, and residents told the Guardian they stood to lose vital community spaces as well as reading resources.
(19) Rayburn, who was also told by his jobcentre he would lose his benefits if he did not work without pay, said he spent almost two months stacking and cleaning shelves and sometimes doing night shifts.
(20) A growing educated middle class is losing touch with apartheid history and seeking alternatives.